3 Reasons I Like Gaddafi’s Latest Rant

“Even the Israelis in Gaza, when they moved into the Gaza strip, they moved in with tanks to fight such extremists. It’s the same thing here! We have small armed groups who are fighting us. We did not use force from the outset . . . Armed units of the Libyan army have had to fight small armed al Qaeda bands. That is what’s happened.”

Here are 3 reasons to like Gaddafi’s rant.

Gaddafi acknowledges that Israel has a right to defend itself against Palestinian terror.

Gaddafi compares himself to Israel in an attempt to justify his actions and put them in a good light and also to imply that he is responding with reasonable force. This is actually a compliment to Israel’ although he might be mad, he is still clever enough to portray himself as a victim just as Israel is a victim of aggression.

Am I the first to think “there be method to [Gaddafi's] madness?” He may speak in non-sequiturs and with typical Arab inconsistency and transparent misdirection, but to lump him in with insane asylum inmates while he does a better job of hanging onto power for power’s sake than any other Middle East tyrant is utterly naive.